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ESMO-ESO Courses on Medical Oncology for Medical Students

These annual five-day residential courses enable students to get a full picture of this challenging and interesting professional field before making the choice of their specialisation.

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ESMO fosters the advancement of cancer research by supporting clinical trials workshops to inspire young oncologists from different disciplines across the globe to become the next generation of active researchers.

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Personalised Medicine Explained

Video interviews and articles designed to help patients, policy makers and other non-medical professionals better understand the principles of personalised cancer medicine

Getting the Most out of Your Oncologist

Now available in Romanian, our Guide for Patients with Advanced Cancer is designed for patients, their family members and oncologists.

Designated Centres of Integrated Oncology and Palliative Care

The ESMO Designated Centres of Integrated Oncology and Palliative Care accreditation programme recognises cancer centres which provide comprehensive services in supportive and palliative care as part of their routine care.

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Policy News

Welcome to OncologyPRO, the home of ESMO’s educational and scientific resources, with Guidelines, a comprehensive list of E-Learning modules, Factsheets on biomarkers, slides and webcasts from our educational programme, and more... to support continuing medical education and daily practice!

EU General Data Protection Regulation: General Information

ESMO's objective: a balance between citizen data security and protecting the much-needed work of researchers by ensuring access to data

The current situation

The European Parliament, European Council and the European Commission are working on a new legislative text on data protection, a General Data Protection Regulation, which would replace the old 1995 Directive on Data Protection. This text, if adopted, will become national law in all EU Member States.

ESMO’s concerns

The ESMO position paper on the EU General Data Protection Regulation seeks to raise awareness with EU decision-makers that their response to citizens’ concerns on data security should not hinder the much-needed work of public health researchers and their appropriate access to data, acknowledging the strict safeguards protecting medical data that are already in place.

Key points:

Public health research heavily relies on medical research (clinical trials), biomedical research (biobanks and tissue banks), and epidemiological research (patient registries).

Without access to this data, health research would be seriously affected, if not impeded.

Broad consent would give patients the right to “donate” their data for public health research purposes. Subject to the usual strict safeguards, the patient would give a “one-time” consent to have their data processed within the framework of health.

The patient should have the right to withdraw this consent at any time.

An exemption of population-based disease registries from consent should be made to permit the collection of the complete, accurate and high quality data needed for effective evidence-based policy decisions.